When the 15-year old golfer needed to make a clutch shot, she did, and it paid off in a big way, Travis Lazarczyk writes.
Travis Lazarczyk
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Travis Lazarczyk has covered sports for the Portland Press Herald since 2021. A Vermont native, he graduated from the University of Maine in 1995 with a BA in English. After a few years working as a sports information director and in the ski industry, he began his journalism career at the Berlin (N.H.) Reporter in 1999. Prior to joining the Press Herald, Lazarczyk spent 20 years covering sports in central Maine at the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. He's been twice honored as the Maine Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.
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Contenders will tee off early as Maine Women’s Amateur opens at Augusta Country Club
The past two champs, Jordan Laplume and Bailey Plourde, enter as favorites to win the three-day tournament.
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Varsity Maine Awards — Girls team Coach of the Year: Mary Beth Bourgoin, Winslow
Bourgoin has a simple coaching philosophy: “They are the daughters of somebody who loves them very much. … I try to make sure I think of that when I coach them.”
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Some college football programs in state exploring a spring season
The New England Small College Athletic Conference has applied for a waiver from the NCAA, sources say, while others are still mulling options.
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Remember When: Lisbon, MCI played the highest scoring softball title game in state history
The Greyhounds rallied to beat the Huskies, 20-16, in the 1990 Class B championship game.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Fall sports: Ideas floated to ensure a fall season for Maine high schools
Moving some sports from spring to fall and vice-versa could be a possible solution as schools cope with the coronavirus’ impact on athletics.
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Central Maine runners disappointed Boston Marathon goes from postponed to canceled
Some may run the race virtually in September, while others may wait until 2021.
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UMaine women’s basketball coach ‘shocked’ there are so few female high school girls hoop coaches in state
With just 27 women coaching girls high school basketball, Amy Vachon organizes online workshop to help generate more interest.
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H.S. football: What might season look like this fall?
High school football coaches wonder how to safely begin a season while adhering to social distancing rules.
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Fifty years later, Colby College’s Class of 1970 recounts disruption to semester’s end
As the coronavirus pandemic has forced changes to Colby’s final weeks of classes and traditional commencement ceremonies, members of the class of 1970 recall how protests and tension that year also disrupted the end of the semester even as their own 50th reunion is now canceled.